Shower enclosure fitted to a tile floor as opposed to a tray based setup.

bmandalia

Hi,

Can anyone confirm that shower enclosures do not strictly have to be fitted to a tray.

Am planning on having a tiled shower floor with underfloor tray but want to ensure the enclosure I choose is ok?

Am looking at this enclosure from Victroria Plum (I can't post the direct link):

Mode Harrison 8mm right handed offset quadrant shower enclosure

Thanks,

B

Doozergirl

Are you talking about having a wet room? 

The point of a wet room is generally not to have much of an enclosure, but a piece of glass just to cover the splash zone, which is about 120cm.  You can have one but it defeats the object of spending an awful lot of extra money on the luxury of tanking a huge expanse of room to have the clean lines of tiles just to enclose it in a random, small enclosure.  

Your wet room tray will be a specific shape, almost certainly rectangle, with falls sloping the floor in all directions towards the drain - your glass needs to sit on the edge of the tray, outside of the sloping area, to be flush to the floor. If you put a quadrant enclosure over a square tray then you're going to have huge gaps under it.   

Quadrant enclosure are also quite fussy with lots of moving parts and nooks and crannies that need extra cleaning.   

Unless you have a quadrant wet room tray, that enclosure will not be suitable.   

bmandalia

Thanks so much for your reply.

I was planning on a full wetroom but have realised the originally planned opening allows for too much water to escape, which I know is the point of a wetroom but it's not for me

So instead am planning this hybrid setup with full enclosure as like the tiled floor idea.

The enclosure is planned for 1200 * 900 and underfloor wetroom tray is larger at 1200 * 1200 so the tray will cover a wider area than the enclosure.

I guess my main concern is fitting the enclosure comfortably and that it will last and not leak etc.

Doozergirl

bmandalia said:

Thanks so much for your reply.

I was planning on a full wetroom but have realised the originally planned opening allows for too much water to escape, which I know is the point of a wetroom but it's not for me

So instead am planning this hybrid setup with full enclosure as like the tiled floor idea.

The enclosure is planned for 1200 * 900 and underfloor wetroom tray is larger at 1200 * 1200 so the tray will cover a wider area than the enclosure.

I guess my main concern is fitting the enclosure comfortably and that it will last and not leak etc.

You're right to be concerned.  You need the enclosure to be the same size as the tray, just like with any other shower tray.  The floor isn't level inside the wet room tray so nothing else will fit.  

Emmia

We have a tiled shower floor, in mosaic tiles, which is different from the slate effect ceramic tiles in the rest of the room and an enclosure formed of two pieces of glass with a gap to exit/enter rather than a door.  We didn't fit it, so its been in for 6+ years as it was installed by the previous owner. 

The shower area is essentially a rectangle twice as long as it is wide, with tiled walls making up two sides (one of which has the shower fitted on). One of the glass panels sits at one end and is the width of the shower, and the other joins the wall where the shower controls are but this is only covers half the length leaving the entry/exit gap.  

The only issue is that the lack of door means that water escapes from the shower when in use, so the floor and glass panels need to be squeegeed before getting out of the shower.